Overland Park police asked the public to help identify a man sought for questioning in connection with a jewelry store theft Monday.

Police said a man came into Noble House Jewelry in the Rosana Square Shopping Center at 116th Street and Metcalf Avenue about 12:20 p.m. Monday and told an employee that he was looking to buy an engagement ring.

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When the employee put a ring on a display case for the man to examine, police said the man picked up the ring and ran out of the store.

"(He said) I really like this one. I'm going to take this one," said sales associate Kathy Krepps. "That's what he did. He grabbed it and ran."

She said she tried to stop the man, but he moved too quick.

"I could not believe that size man could move so fast," she said.

Investigators said the man is black, 30 to 40 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, bald and had on a white T-shirt and long dark shorts. He was last seen driving east on 115th Street in a dark silver or gray truck with a flat cover on its bed.

KMBC 9's Maria Antonia said the ring was valued at about $9,000. It had six princess-cut diamonds.

Sales associate Bob Powell said it was odd that the man spent so much time talking to employees.

"(That) someone that's going to rob you is going to sit down and talk to you about what he wants and doesn't want, that's what so bizarre," he said.

Police released surveillance images of the man. They asked anyone who knows the man's identity to call the Crime Stoppers TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.

The store's owner said the shop has cameras inside, but she said she wants cameras all around the outside of the center, too. Monday's theft happened less than a month after a cookie store on the other side of the center was held up at gunpoint in the middle of the afternoon.